We need openness NOW to change the way all leaders think and operate against Covid-19 NOW.
There will still be lessons to learn only openness can help us
The reason to understand why China and most of the world failed to stop Covid-19 is to make sure those in power do not do the same things again in 2021 and hide what is happening
We need to use the successful public health models against Covid-19.
I agree no countries apart from Taiwan and New Zealand handled the Covid-19 outbreak well.
Most Medical and National leaders failed their people including Dr Fauci, Dr Gao, President Trump, Joe Biden and especially President Xi.
All these men said there was no problem but knew otherwise very early on. Later they all pushed different political or industry group interests not a public health solution.
The main thing Trump did well was ban most flights from China early on despite Dr Fauci, Biden and others in the USA and China saying it was unnecessary and racist. However Trump failed to put in domestic controls to stop contagion
We still do not know what is happening in China today. China stops independent reporting on Covid-19
We do know that Hong Kong on the January 4th 2020, just days after CDC in Mainland China reported a cluster of pneumonia cases with unknown causes in Wuhan, [the HKSAR Government] initiated its “serious response level” alert against SARS and then was reportedly stopped from taking more action until late January. See Atlantic article at the end and HK timeline on CNBC also at end of this post.
CDC, multiple other federal agencies, state and local health departments, and other partners are implementing aggressive measures to slow transmission of 2019-nCoV in the United States, be ready ...
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The question you asked was
"which is the real origin of the global deadly COVID-19 pandemic, China, Italy or USA?"
You avoid answering your own question. Lets look at that later
Al Jazeera has interviewed Taiwan's Health Minister to understand how they successfully stopped Covid coming from China.
It is clear this Taiwan experience can be applied NOW to stop Covid spreading more in 2021.
Dr Chen Chien-jen says prompt action in December 2019 could have averted a global pandemic.
www.aljazeera.com
The Ebola and bird and swine flu outbreaks were treated by public health solution measures. The 2002-2003 SARS outbreak was treated politically until very late.
China has a history of covering up epidemics. In 2003, the world didn’t learn about SARS until after it had escaped China and become impossible to deny. (Back then, the
WHO openly criticized China for its lack of transparency and cover-up, and we contained the epidemic just in the nick of time.) This time, the WHO did what China wanted despite early evidence showing a serious 2020 SARS pandemic would begun
NOW stopping the spread of SARS / Covid-19 and finding treatments and cures is VITAL.
We need a different leader mindset for the Covid-19 crisis.
There are a range of simple health measures and treatments that work against Covid-19 as shown by Taiwan and New Zealand.
The use of older medicines like Ivermectin, vaccines and rapid antigen TESTING of people is critical.
China is still not open about what is happening. No open debate is allowed on Covid-19 or any treatment regimes. This is what happened in 2019 and 2020. The World and China still cannot depend on what Chinese leaders say on how to deal with Covid-19
Taiwan was successful against Covid-19 because it knew how China acted from the 2003 SARS outbreak so did not trust the data or public comments China provided on Covid-19 and warned the world and WHO as early as 31st Dec 2019 of the problem.
Taiwan used testing and public health measures to stop Covid-19
Hong Kong also had early sucess based on its SARS protocols when it acted to block travel from Wuhan and introduce medical measures on 4th Jan 2020 but Beijing stopped some proposed steps and this helped allow the virus into Hong Kong unlike Taiwan.
The question you asked was
"which is the real origin of the global deadly COVID-19 pandemic, China, Italy or USA?"
I believe this question is now only important to make sure 2021 Covid-19 health care works and we do not make the same mistakes with new Covid-19 programs or just accept the way the Chinese leaders deal with the health crisis is valid
For that reason I set out the publicly know info below.
The answer is China. Both for where SARS/Covid-19 started and for hiding what was happening and so allowing the spread around the world
SARS/Covid-19 that first spread around the world was from China.
The Wuhan Covid-19 genetic sequence is very clear. There is no evidence to say some unrelated virus suddenly infected other countries. The recent mutations of covid all come from the Wuhan Covid-19
China is still trying to rewrite its role in old 2020 events and seems to do the same now as more Covid waves hit China and the world in 2021
On China - President Xi and Chinese CDC leader Dr George Gao knew from the gene sequenced lab tests the Chinese CDC had by the 27th of December 2019, that there was a serious SARS outbreak in Wuhan.
Xi and Gao both deliberately hid the test information from China and the world and failed to report that there was a SARS outbreak to the WHO within 24 hours as required. Taiwan reported to the WHO its SARS Covid-19 outbreaks why did China not do the same?
On the 11th Jan 2020 the SARS data was released unofficially by Chinese researchers who were then punished.
This was also what China did in 2002-2003 when SARS first occurred.
Compare this with Taiwan and Hong Kong early approach to that of China
On 22 Jan 2020 Taiwan banned travelers from Wuhan and President Tsai of Taiwan urged China
"to properly disclose information about the deadly outbreak as a responsible member of the international community and fully share information with Taiwan."
Taiwan had already quarantined a woman with Covid-19 who came from Wuhan and informed China and the WHO. Hong Kong also restricted Wuhan travel but the CCP stopped some of Hong Kongs medical measures against Covid-19 for political reasons
Taiwan authorities on Wednesday banned all travelers to the island from the central Chinese city of Wuhan, where a new and deadly coronavirus has been discovered.
news.abs-cbn.com
An article in the Atlantic addresses all this
Taiwan’s and Hong Kong’s health authorities assessed the pandemic accurately, and not just with respect to the science. They understood the political complexities, including the roles of the WHO and China in shaping official statements about the virus. They did not take the WHO’s word when it was still parroting in late January China’s cover-up that there was no human-to-human transmission.
Trump’s defunding ploy will only make the organization’s problems worse.
www.theatlantic.com
We can get a glimpse at that alternate timeline by looking at the two places where COVID-19 was successfully contained: Taiwan and Hong Kong. With dense populations and close links to and travel from China, Taiwan and Hong Kong are unlikely candidates for success. Yet Taiwan
reported zero new confirmed cases on Tuesday, fewer than 400 confirmed cases since the beginning of the outbreak, and only six deaths. Taiwan’s schools have been open since the end of February and there is no drastic lockdown in the island of almost 30 million people
Hong Kong has had a slightly tougher time. It is ruled by an unpopular leader handpicked by Beijing, so not all the recommendations of its health experts could be implemented. But still, the city has had
just more than 1,000 cases and only four deaths, despite never completely closing its border with mainland China and despite a lot of the city functioning as usual. Taiwan and Hong Kong succeeded because they ignored, contradicted, and defied the official position and the advice of the WHO on many significant issues. This is not a coincidence, but a damning indictment of the WHO’s leadership.
Taiwan ignored the WHO’s position that travel bans were ineffective; instead, it closed its borders
early and,
like Hong Kong, screened travelers aggressively.
Hong Kong and Taiwan remembered that China has a history of covering up epidemics. In 2003, the world didn’t learn about SARS until after it had escaped China and become impossible to deny. (Back then, the
WHO openly criticized China for its lack of transparency and cover-up, and we contained the epidemic just in the nick of time.) This time, the WHO was told the truth early on: Taiwanese health authorities sent their own medical teams to Wuhan in December. Those scientists confirmed human-to-human transmission—
the most crucial piece of information for determining the difference between a local tragedy (if viruses are only jumping from infected bats or pangolins to humans in wildlife markets where people interact directly with them) and a brewing global pandemic. Taiwan isn’t allowed to be a member of the WHO, because of China’s objections, but
it still informed the organization. Hong Kong health authorities, too, announced as early as January 4 that they
suspected human-to-human transmission was already occurring, as they also looked at the evidence and their own contacts in Wuhan.
Read: Keep the parks open
Imagine the WHO took notice of the information it received from Taiwan and Hong Kong. Imagine the WHO also recognized that whistleblower doctors in Wuhan were being threatened with jail time. It would have realized that something important was happening, something worth investigating. It could have immediately, but politely, demanded access to the region around Wuhan and its hospitals.
This alternate timeline does not ignore realpolitik. China is not a nation known for cooperating with international agencies when it doesn’t want to. (This tendency is not specific to China.
See Hong Kong info
How Hong Kong's response to combat the spread of Covid-19 has provided a model for the world to follow.
www.cnbc.com